ARKHANGELSK

Merchants Court (Gostinnyi dvor) trading center (early 18th century), Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Lutheran Church of St. Catherine (1768), southeast view, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Church of St. Nicholas (1904), legation of St. Nicholas-Korelskii Monastery, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Beliavskii house (circa 1900), and Building of Spiritual Consistory, (early 19th century), Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

E. K. Plotnikova Emporium (shops) (late 19th century), Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Chudinov house (1904), relocated in 1990s to Chumbarova-Luchinskii, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Wooden (log) apartment house, Dvina River embankment (1990s), Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Main city market (1980s), Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Theater Square, Grandfather Frost performs for 1999 New Year's, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior (16th-19th centuries), northeast view across Holy Lake, with White Tower (left), Arkhangelsk Tower, and St. Nicholas Tower (right), Solovetskii Island, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

The German firm HDM Ost, which is active in Arkhangelsk, Northwest Russia, and Siberia, which now has a representative office in Vladivostok and is interested in purchasing large amounts of lumber (glued panels and boards) for both Russian and European markets, can serve as an equipment supply channel. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Commercial seaports are also located in Murmansk, Kaliningrad, and Arkhangelsk, and several additional cargo port projects are currently being developed in Leningrad Oblast. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.